"JavaScript is Weird"

Code that accompanies lecture 5 and 7 from CS 261, introducing JavaScript and Node to C++ programmers. Various notes as I have time to update them.

Node Intro Demo

Hello World Wide Web

Example Web App Server using Express. It doesn't do anything, but is quite verbose.

Hello World Wide Web but Cleaner

Same Web App Server, but now with anonymous functions!

TCP Server from CS 260

Well, not really, but the core parts of it anyway.

Javascript is Dynamically Typed

Then go on to briefly introduce Dynamic Typing, at least as far as Node/JS is concerned:

• Variables Do Not Have a Type at Declaration.
• Types are Inferred by usage
• Variables do have a type, but that type can be changed at runtime
• Variables can be "coerced" into a different type! (This implicit type conversion is where most of the 'wat' comes from in javascript...)